Porteus

New features which should be implemented in Porteus; suggestions are welcome. All questions or problems with testing releases (alpha, beta, or rc) should go in their relevant thread here, rather than the Bug Reports section.

Hi,
in this old threat people discuss about a new cheatcode vga-detect and legacy-drivers for ati-radeon-cards. On page two, someone stated that radeon HD 4650 is working with vga-detect and standard-drivers.

I just put in exactly this card but can't find any legacy-drivers for porteus. I placed amd-catalyst-14.4-porteus-v3.0.1-x86_64-1ftm.xzm in /poorteus/optional and tried the cheatcode - it doesn't seem to work. When putting the file in the modules folder it doesn't get activated during boot. Right now, porteus seems to use the opensource drivers but they make the system incredible slow. Glxgearts is running at 60 fps and booting takes over 3 minutes.

What's the matter with vga-detect? The guy in the post said the usual catalyst was working with HD4650 and vga-detect. Can't download vga-detect anywhere.

Is it possible the opensource-drivers running at the moment are somehow incomplete or misconfigured? I didn't install anything - porteus seems to use them automatically. However, I can't play opengl-games anymore and the whole PC is very slow. Strangely compiz is working for some reason...really don't know why...I still have wobbling windows but wine shows only white boxes when starting some 3d-game.

What's the matter with vga-detect? The guy in the post said the usual catalyst was working with HD4650 and vga-detect. Can't download vga-detect anywhere.
its a cheatcode and it must have been an old thread or guy is using older version of Porteus.

Is it possible the opensource-drivers running at the moment are somehow incomplete or misconfigured?
correct - in your case i would suggest using older version of Porteus with working ati legacy driver. maybe next release will fix your issues so you could come back to current.

correct - in your case i would suggest using older version of Porteus with working ati legacy driver. maybe next release will fix your issues so you could come back to current.

Well, thank you for the good advice. I'm glad most things are running fine so far, with my current porteus-version. Spent a lot of work to set-up everything. Really don't wanna change the version now. I'd rather fiddle around with re-installing the opensource-drivers somehow. I've heard they really got basic opengl-support working. Doesn't sound too bad, actually. Another option was exchanging kernel and xorg...but that's too difficult for me. Using an older porteus was the better alternative then.

Hi guys,
over a year has passed since the last post. So now, my question is: Did any release come out fixing my issues (as mentioned in the last answer)?

maybe next release will fix your issues so you could come back

Was there any progress with the opensource-drivers? I tried Xorg-homepage and found many many green status-messages in the R700-Column (Radeon HD4650 is called RV730 in xorg-world for some reason. For some other reason R700 is the correct column looking up supported features for my card).

I still want to play some cool 3D-games on wine which did work with the legacy-driver before. Is it possible now? How do I download/exchange newest Xorg on my old porteus (still same version as at the beginning of the post)?

No. What's different in this version? In case of doubt I would prefere modyfing my current system. I spent a lot of work in configuration and don't wanna loose it. I have so many additional and selfmade packages and modifications.

Thank you!
I replaced both files with the ones from the x_64-link but can't see any difference.
Glxgears still runs at 60 fps only and wine can't make use of D3D: PLayonlinux complains about not finding 32-bit-opengl-files. Don't know if they are really missing. Before I changed graphics card and driver, playonlinux did just run fine. I still have wobbling windows on my desktop, however.

Btw: Did I get that right that your links provide a newer porteus than the homepage?